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[5] [6] In 1981, the company introduced its first two bikes: the Sequoia, a sport-touring design, and the Allez, a road bike. [7] Specialized also introduced the first major production mountain bike in the world, the Stumpjumper, in 1981. Like the Sequoia and Allez, the Stumpjumper was designed by Tim Neenan and based on an early Tom Ritchey ...
A 2008 Specialized Stumpjumper with full suspension. The Specialized Stumpjumper is a mountain bike produced by Specialized Bicycle Components. When it was first produced in 1981, the Stumpjumper was the first mass-production mountain bike. The Stumpjumper is still in production, although its design has changed significantly since it was first ...
Van Rysel–Roubaix is a French UCI Continental cycling team founded in 2007. For the 2019 season, the team secured additional sponsorship from Natura4Ever, [ 1 ] which was later rebranded as Xelliss in 2021.
The Roubaix Velodrome (officially Vélodrome André-Pétrieux) is a velodrome in Roubaix, Nord, France. It was opened in 1936 and has hosted the finish of the one-day "monument classic" cycling race Paris–Roubaix since 1943. [1] [2]
The typical 5-axle tractor-trailer combination, also called a "semi" or "18-wheeler", is a Class 8 vehicle. [30] Standard trailers vary in length from 8 ft (2.4 m) containers to 57 ft (17 m) van trailers, with the most common length being the 53 ft (16 m) trailer. [31] Specialized trailers for oversized loads can be considerably longer.
Roubaix entrepreneur Share of the Société Anonyme du Vélodrome de Roubaix, issued 3 March 1899. Paris–Roubaix is one of the oldest races of professional road cycling. It was first run in 1896 and has stopped only for the two world wars and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2024 Paris–Roubaix was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 7 April in France. It was the 121st edition of Paris–Roubaix and the 16th event of the 2024 UCI World Tour . The race was won by Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin–Deceuninck for the second year in succession, after a solo attack over 60 kilometres. [ 1 ]
Weight classes are divisions of competition used to match competitors against others of their own size. Weight classes are used in a variety of sports including rowing , weight lifting , and especially combat sports [ 1 ] such as boxing , kickboxing , mixed martial arts , wrestling , and Brazilian jiu-jitsu .